“The works made by Stéphane Couturier at the Toyota plant in Valenciennes are, through their protocol, their material and their forms, in blatant rupture with the documentary regime of truth. But the break is not complete. Between digital and film, between detachment from reality and the persistence of an adhesion to things, they offer a sort of figurative abstraction: a mixture and a clash of forms, of realities, of regimes of truth, of natures of the image — between the recorded and the painted.” — André Rouillé